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Tremlet C. Carr (November 6, 1891– August 18, 1946) was an American film producer, closely associated with the low-budget filmmaking of Poverty Row. In 1931 he co-founded Monogram Pictures , which developed into one of the leading specialist producers of B pictures in Hollywood .
An extremely efficient production manager, Trem continued to attract a number of equally efficient (meaning in most cases, extremely cheap) producers under the Monogram banner in the early 40s, and scooping up other studios' cast-off properties that he keenly sensed still had money left to wring out of them.
- Producer, Additional Crew, Production Manager
- November 6, 1891
- Trem Carr
- August 18, 1946
W. Ray Johnston, president of Monogram Pictures, is shown here with Trem Carr, vice president in charge of production, looking over the huge metal ball especially designed for Monogram's new novelty thriller, "Lost in the Stratosphere," which has scenes of the actual ascent in the Dakotas by the army flyers in one of the climactic scenes from ...
In 1928, Johnston and Carr began Syndicate Pictures. In 1931, they formed Monogram Pictures. That same year, Carr took out a five-year lease on land in Placerita Canyon in the area which is now owned by the Disney Corporation (see Golden Oak Ranch).
The Melody Ranch story really begins in 1922, when Trem Carr came out West to make movies. The 1920s saw him make several pictures in the Santa Clarita Valley, particularly in Placerita Canyon, where he started Monogram Pictures with a partner.
We don't know all of the filming locations, but the fact that Ernie Hickson was the technical director tells us it was shot at least in part at Trem Carr's movie ranch in Placerita Canyon, just east of today's 14 Freeway where Disney's Golden Oak Ranch would later be located.
Brown found a home at Monogram, where he churned out more than 60 pictures over the next decade and was one of the top 10 money-makers in the Western film business. But the sun was setting on "B" Westerns. Trem Carr died in 1946 and Steve Broidy took over at Monogram.
